Using Direct Information Literacy Assessment to Improve Mechanical Engineering Student Learning - A Report on Rubric Analysis of Student Research Assignments

Margaret Phillips received her BS in Economics and BA in Psychology from Purdue University and her MLS from Indiana University, IUPUI. She has been working as the Research and Assessment Librarian and liaison to the ME, ECE, and Chemistry Departments at Saginaw Valley State University since March 2015. Previously, she was employed as a librarian at the Van Pelt and Opie Library at Michigan Technological University and as an academic advisor at the IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology. Her main focuses are assessment, information literacy instruction, and faculty outreach.